People’s attention span is very short these days. The “x-minute read” is a courtesy to those who fear they might get trapped in an arduous and impossible-to-complete 2-digit-minute read.

Billionnaires are hoarders. They don’t need the shit they hoard but they can’t help themselves trying to get more shit.

The problem is, billionnaires hoard money at everybody else’s expense.

No. And if you don’t have real grey hair and a real walking impediment and the judge finds out, you’ll only make it worse for yourself.

Equilateral mostly. No good side to it whatsoever.

Knowing you have another half century left

I hate to break it to you, but that’s unlikely.

When you’re 50 in the US, you have a little less than 30 springs left on average. a few more if you live in a country with a functional healthcare system.

Think about it: when you turn 50, you’ll only get to say “summer is coming” 30 times. Merry Chrismas or Happy New Year to your family 30 times. Or “I’ll do it next year” 30 times. And when you’re 50, you know 30 years pass quickly.

And that’s if the big C or COVID or something equally stupid doesn’t get you first.

To the OP: enjoy your youth while you can. It’ll be over before you know it. Trust me on this one.

I match your desired timeline and I’d take yours any day.

When you get to 50, you’ll understand.

HP… What a surprise.

I understood what you said. The gist of my reply is: if you want to “internationalize” yourself, speak English. It’s the lingua franca of the world. Soon to be replaced by Cantonese no doubt though 🙂

My point was, the language you - or the world - speaks has nothing to do with your political or societal values.

As a socialist I think that this is important.

If you think languages and socialism have anything to do with each other, you’re sorely mistaken. You can be a socialist - or a communist, a capitalist pigdog, or a Nazi or anything at all - and speak any language you want. Case in point: Hebrew.

You speaking Esperanto doesn’t say anything about your political leanings. All it says is that you’re interested in languages.

I meant in real life, in ordinary everyday settings. I can also “speak” Morse code with fellow hams on the air, or practice sign language at my local community college, but those are “forced” venues so-to-speak. It’s not like I can routinely speak Esperanto every day as a matter of course.

2 million Esperanto speakers is 0.025% of the world’s population, which works out as 1 Esperanto speaker every 360,000 square miles where I live. I still haven’t met that guy.

My opinion is this: who can I speak Esperanto with?

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Exactly.

The problem with Esperanto is that languages don’t work like that: they’re not created out of thin air. They exist because people speak them and they come into existance from other languages that get distorted beyond recognition by the people who misuse them.

No living language is known to have been conjured into existence, with perhaps the possible exception of a few rare language isolates like Basque that might have been invented from scratch a long time ago, since nobody knows where they come from exactly.

The bible is already a work of hallucination. I’d like a little of whatever whoever came up with that pile of nonsense was on. I’m not sure what AI can add to it.

Just read whatever you find anywhere and leave out the opinionated bits.

In other words, you can safely assume the hows, whens, wheres and to a certain extent the whys are accurate and not made up, and anything else - particularly whether he was right or wrong, the bits about whether his victim was right or wrong, whether the cops are lying, whether the McD employee is evil, whether Mangione should be freed or fried… is all a bunch of ultra-biased hogwash, regardless of the bias.